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Monday, February 15, 2010

Marinade de Poulets - Batter-fried Chicken

Fried chicken, with and without batter--the original chicken tenders--and period-correct, too!

Chicken Marinade.Cut your Chickens in pieces, & marinate them with the juice of lemon & verjuice, or vinegar, salt, pepper, cloves, Welsh onions [scallions] & bay leaves. Leave them in this Marinade the space of three hours: then make a batter in a bowl with flour, salt, an egg, & a [walnut-sized] piece of butter, melted; beat well, adding water if needed to create the right consistency; then drain your Chickens of marinade & pat dry with white linen, & soak them in your batter, drain with a spoon & fry in lard: having a beautiful color, you withdraw them & drain them on a towel, or a dish, also fry parsley for garnish; & serve them hot for Entrèe, or Hors d'œuvres; can use to garnish other dishes. One can make these Marinades without batter; Chickens are marinated, then drained & wiped on a linen cloth; flour a towel, roll the Chickens [around on the towel to coat with flour], & fry in lard; be careful of splattering grease: being fried of a beautiful color, you serve it just as the other recipe above.

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Explore with me 18thC French cuisine as a habitante in Nouvelle France may have cooked. After the F&I War, and again after the Revolutionary War, habitantes were surrounded and overrun by Anglo and other American influences. By the end of the 18thC, new foods and new methods of cooking would change her culture forever.